Know Your Patient

DH340 : The Class : Intro : Know Your Patient : Know Your Patient
Know Your Patient

Objectives:

1. Understand the importance of the patient's medical and dental history in the diagnostic process.
2. Apply correct vocabulary in describing an oral lesion.
3. Describe an oral lesion using the six characteristics.
4. Understand the diagnostic process.
5. Identify variants of normal oral anatomy in your clinical care.
6. Identify benign condition of unknown etiology in your clinical care.
7. Recognize and apply the diagnosis, predilection, clinical appearance, radiographic appearance and treatment for variants of normal.
8. Recognize and apply the diagnosis, predilection, clinical appearance, radiographic appearance and treatment for benign condition of unknown etiology.

To complete this Topic successfully, please complete the following activities in the order shown below:

ON-LINE LESSON: Read the On-line Lesson on Know Your Patient

GALLERY: Study the Vocabulary Gallery

ON-LINE LESSON: Description of a few lesions

MINOR ASSIGNMENT: Complete the Description of Lesions

GALLERY: Study the Gallery of Variants of Normal

GALLERY: Study the Gallery of Benign Condition of Unknown Etiology

Once you have completed these activities you should:

Go on to Inflammation and Repair
or
Go back to Intro to Oral Pathology

E-mail Denise Helm at Denise.Helm@nau.edu
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